Universidade Federal do Paraná

Faculty Member, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política

Other Affiliations: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Ciências Sociais

professor - Political Science

Núcleo de Pesquisa em Sociologia Política Brasileira http://www.nusp.ufpr.br/

Thesis Title: Elites and institutions in Brazil: a contextual analysis of the New State ('Estado Novo'). Ph.D. in Political Science. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brasil. 2008.

About

Adriano Codato is professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil, since 1992.

Editor of the journal Revista de Sociologia e Política/Journal of Sociology and Politics (www.scielo.br/rsocp), he is a coordinator of the Center for Research in Brazilian Political Sociology (NUSP), at the UFPR (http://www.nusp.ufpr.br/).

In 1997 he received the prize "José Albertino Rodrigues" of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Sciences.

He was for a short period, visiting professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2007.

His research topics mainly include the following subjects: dictatorial political regimes; systems of interest representation; political elites; state elites; and Marxist political theory.

He is one of the coordinators of the research project: "Composition and recomposition of the dominant groups in the Northeast and in Southern Brazil: a comparative and interdisciplinary approach."

Currently, he is dedicated to the study of recruitment of the Brazilian political class.

He participates in the research:
1) The changes in the twenty-first century Brazilian political class: a study of the occupational profile of federal deputies and Senators (1986-2014); and

2) How does a representative: the selection of candidates for federal deputy in 2010 elections.

He is the project director of the Observatory of political and social elites of Brazil. http://observatory-elites.org/

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